All 17 Uses
compel
in
White Fang
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- As with the running mate on the left, she repelled these attentions with her teeth; but when both bestowed their attentions at the same time she was roughly jostled, being compelled, with quick snaps to either side, to drive both lovers away and at the same time to maintain her forward leap with the pack and see the way of her feet before her.†
Part 2compelled = forced; or (more rarely) convinced
- For a short three feet she was compelled to crouch, then the walls widened and rose higher in a little round chamber nearly six feet in diameter.†
Part 2
- As he grew stronger, he found himself compelled to play alone, for the sister no longer lifted her head nor moved about.†
Part 2
- She compelled obedience from him,
Part 2 *compelled = forced
- With nose serrulated by continuous spasms, hair bristling in recurrent waves, tongue whipping out like a red snake and whipping back again, ears flattened down, eyes gleaming hatred, lips wrinkled back, and fangs exposed and dripping, he could compel a pause on the part of almost any assailant.†
Part 3compel = force; or (more rarely) convince
- With the exception of Lip-lip, they were compelled to hunch together for mutual protection against the terrible enemy they had made.†
Part 3compelled = forced; or (more rarely) convinced
- At first he had been prone to turn upon his pursuers, jealous of his dignity and wrathful; but at such times Mit-sah would throw the stinging lash of the thirty-foot cariboo-gut whip into his face and compel him to turn tail and run on.†
Part 3compel = force; or (more rarely) convince
- He compelled them to an unremitting respect for him.†
Part 3compelled = forced; or (more rarely) convinced
- But he was not compelled to take injustice from the other gods.†
Part 3
- To be compelled to run away before the yelling pack, every dog of which, for three years, he had thrashed and mastered, was almost more than he could endure.†
Part 4
- For days his manifestations of desire to lay hands on him had been growing more insistent, and during that time White Fang had been compelled to avoid the camp.†
Part 4
- Men despaired of matching him with an equal, and Beauty Smith was compelled to pit wolves against him.†
Part 4
- He became very sick, so sick that Matt was finally compelled to bring him inside the cabin.†
Part 4
- When she forced him too hard, he was compelled to go about in a circle, his shoulder presented to her, his head turned from her, and on his face and in his eyes a patient and bored expression.†
Part 5
- A cuff from the master and a sharp word had then compelled him to permit their caresses, though he growled and growled under their tiny hands, and in the growl there was no crooning note.†
Part 5
- Here he was compelled to violate his instinct of self-preservation, and violate it he did, for he was becoming tame and qualifying himself for civilisation.†
Part 5
- Inoffensive ranchers in remote valleys were held up by armed men and compelled to identify themselves.†
Part 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(compel) to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do somethingMost typically, compel describes an external influence forcing someone to do something, but it can also describe being driven by an internal desire. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)